Someone should make a movie showing the point of view of one of the kings of the world, looking at normal people like at so many ants.

Standing at a busy street intersection and looking at the human cattle, obeying conditionning and orders right down to the slaughterhouse.

You know it’s not so much on how much money they make on a movie but how they do it that concerns so many people. Their conduct is so bad. They lie in the media about their losses when it has been proven that they are not losing money at all. They have PR people, like yourself, to troll sites like this to pass on their propaganda. Big Business with their high powered lawyers and corporate lobbyist with their deep pockets have corrupted governments around the world to do their bidding. And the list goes on.

The sad thing is that they are missing an opportunity to create a business model based on the popularity of P2P. Unfortunately their greed of money and power has probably blinded them to this fact.

I have worked in the movie industry and I can tell you first hand that if a movie makes a profit, it’s not the creators that benefit from it but the upper echelon: CEOs, executive staff & management, and occasionally the star(s) of the movie. Everyone else, the production crew, writers, supporting actors, do not make any money if the movie makes a profit. Most of them are underpaid or are on what is called lo/no, which means they’ll be lucky if they see any money at all from their hard work. Nevermind the amount of money that is wasted on spending that is not related to the movie and then hidden in the budget.

Also you are working from the assumption that internet file sharers are stealing never buying what they have downloaded. There have been studies that shown that most who download are from the “try before you buy” group. And the figures in this article, and others, proves that the entertainment industry is anything but suffering from downloading.

All this Big Business crying foul is nothing but BS, and a means to control the internet for their own greed.

Screw you Sony and screw blue ray.

If I couldn’t torrent, I still wouldn’t buy shitty insanely overpriced $60 crapfests that hollywood tries to pass off as movies. That said, if I download something I like, I buy it. Oddly enough, the stuff that doesnt suck is usually reasonably priced too. For example, I have all 10 seasons of SG1 on dvd, which wouldnt have happened if I hadn’t torrented it first.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I don’t have enough disposable income to risk spending a fuckton of money on something I might not even like.

[i]neo.styles: “I don’t know what country you are from, but here in America, people who work harder benefit more.”[/i]

You’re wrong. Our society is far from perfect. There’s many people in the world who REALLY WORK HARD just to earn a decent living and they’ll never have the millions of dollars that you earn.

If people were to be paid in terms of who works harder, moviemakers sure as hell wouldn’t be the ones earning the millions.

Instead of being thankful for thankful for what you DO earn, you demand more and more money from the common people that work harder than you in an attempt to be even richer.

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On a side note, I study Business and I’m really amazed at the f’ed up business model of the entertainment industry.

Any company that wants to be in business has to adapt to the changing marketplace and consumer needs, in an attempt to satisfy their customers and provide them with what they want at prices they can afford.

Instead, the entertainment industry vehemently refuses to adapt to technological change, criminalizes and alienates the costumers, ignores their needs and charges more than many can afford to pay for their products. Way to go!

thank you !!@#@@$$@@@@@@@

Happy Pirating!

Thanks you

would all the people downloading a specific Film really have bought it if torrents were unavailable?

I think not, many MANY of those would just have taken one glance at the box cover and thought “dude this film looks like pure s**t” and would then walk on with their lives never watching a film that could have become their all time favourite.

and there are others who (like me) have bought one too many expensive films that turn out to be utter cr*p.
and thus download just to find out if its worth buying.

so do not arrogantly assume that everyone who download would have bought it.

Tja da kann die MPAA lange meckern, dass die Piraterie die Film Industrie kaputt macht.

Despite these worries, neither the ever-increasing piracy rates nor the global recession could prevent Hollywood having its best year ever in 2009. With an estim…

have any of you ever recycled your damaged scratched and useless old ones?

do anyone of you know how recyclable those materials are?

I understand they are pretty recycleable, but few of our little laser readable friends ever go that way.

is digital distribution better than plastic distribution?

plastic is a petrochemical product isn’t it?

You start the article with “Claims by the MPAA that illegal downloads are killing the industry and causing billions in losses are once again being shredded.”

Then you end it with “Of course this doesn’t mean that the lack of a negative correlation between piracy and box office ticket sales is proving that illegal downloads have no effect at all. It could be that the movie industry would make even more money if the plug was pulled on the Internet.”

So, how *exactly* are the MPAA’s claims being “shredded?”

You’re lucky that most of the readers here are barely literate…they’ll put up with idiotic and non-logical propaganda like this as long as you keep bashing the MPAA/RIAA/etc. That way, they can keep grunting and pointing and adding to the chorus of “stealing is good…producers are evil.”

But could the rising numbers just be a product of the rising costs of tickets?

Just sayin…

Truth is physical media sales is bound to fall. People will only buy physical media for stuff they think it’s worth. Blu-ray discs, CDs and DVDs need space to be stored while you can easily store dozens of movies in big HDDs for much less space.

As said ad nauseam, all the industry needs is to evolve and offer different alternatives to the physical media for sane prices and they’ll surely increase their revenues a few billions per year. But of course they are not interested in that… So it seems from all the lawsuits against their customers.